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Cultures Of Exile: Conversations On Language And The Arts, Eleni Bastéa, Walter Putnam, Mark Forte Apr 2014

Cultures Of Exile: Conversations On Language And The Arts, Eleni Bastéa, Walter Putnam, Mark Forte

Faculty Publications

The conference “Cultures of Exile: Conversations on Language and the Arts,” co-organized by Professors Eleni Bastea and Walter Putnam, was inspired by the music of Georges Moustaki (1934--2013), especially his song “Le Métèque” (1969). In “Le Métèque” Moustaki dealt with outsiders, strangers, and all those who do not share one homogeneous place of origin. What does it mean to be a “métèque,” an exile, an outsider today? Although often associated with loss and victimhood, exile can also foster artistic freedom, creativity, renewal, and empowerment. What is the role of the new place in the development of one’s artistic oeuvre? How …

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Receptive And Productive Mastery Of Recurrent Academic Word Combinations By First (L1) And Second (L2) English Speakers, Abdullah Ali Alasmary Apr 2014

Receptive And Productive Mastery Of Recurrent Academic Word Combinations By First (L1) And Second (L2) English Speakers, Abdullah Ali Alasmary

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Corpus-based evidence suggests that a great proportion of the written academic discourse is formulaic; that is, it comprises lexically bundled items that take different shapes and serve diverse functions. Recurrent word combinations are an important subclass of formulaic language which has received considerable attention. Attempts to synthesize and analyze such combinations have led to the development of various taxonomies that incorporate a large number of recurrent units, along with their frequency counts, the discourse functions they perform and their structural patterning. While these units appear to be easily accessible to native English speakers, they are notoriously difficult to grasp by …

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High School Students Tell All: Analyzing Facebook Confession Sites, Chelsea Conrad Apr 2014

High School Students Tell All: Analyzing Facebook Confession Sites, Chelsea Conrad

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Social media sites are gaining popularity, giving teenagers a venue to anonymously post secrets, rants, and insults. Recently, anonymous high school related Facebook confession sites have emerged. These sites, while not endorsed by the school, often contain the school’s name, mascot and location creating a forum for anonymous social interactions among high school students. Facebook confession sites have gained attention over concerns about cyber bullying and the potential negative influence on the reputation of schools. The purpose of this study is to analyze the language of Facebook confession sites to determine the degree of positive and negative emotionality as well …

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A Performance Guide To Select A Cappella Works Of Jean Sibelius Including Translations And Phonetic Transcriptions Of Finnish Texts, John Guarente Apr 2014

A Performance Guide To Select A Cappella Works Of Jean Sibelius Including Translations And Phonetic Transcriptions Of Finnish Texts, John Guarente

Open Access Dissertations

This essay is a performance guide to select a cappella choral works of Jean Sibelius that is geared towards choral musicians whose primary language is English. The introduction begins with an overview of Sibelius's early career as a composer and the socio-political climate in which he lived. This provides context for the discussion of Sibelius's Finnish language a cappella choral repertoire. The performance guide itself first gives a thorough explanation of Finnish choral diction. Rather than enumerate every single Finnish choral work by Sibelius, the author has narrowed the scope of the essay to a select group of pieces based …

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Cseas Weekly Bulletin (April 21, 2014), Center For Southeast Asian Studies Apr 2014

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (April 21, 2014), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

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April 21, 2014: The Newberry Center For Renaissance Studies Presents, Department Of English Apr 2014

April 21, 2014: The Newberry Center For Renaissance Studies Presents, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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An Observational Study Among Refugee Students Over 60 Years Old, Rina Rajbahak Apr 2014

An Observational Study Among Refugee Students Over 60 Years Old, Rina Rajbahak

College of Health Sciences Presentations

Refugees who come to the United States of America are culturally and linguistically diverse. Adopting a new culture and learning new languages are always a challenge and this is particularly true for older adults. The English Language Center (ELC) and the SHINE program at Boise State University is a platform for older adult refugees to learn and overcome the challenges of adapting to a new place. The observational study is going with the help of center of Aging, Boise State University. The purpose of this observational study is to gather information about the experiences of refugees over the age of …

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Tshiluba Language Structures, Vanessa Rosenbaum, Kelli Billings, Janessa Gohn, Libby Holcomb, Jessica Lahey, Jessica Milanez, Kelly Nuttall, Tyler Scoggins, Kristen Smith, Stephanie Todd, Jake Young, Albert Romain Bantumbakulu Mukuna, Daniel Miko-Mikyene Apr 2014

Tshiluba Language Structures, Vanessa Rosenbaum, Kelli Billings, Janessa Gohn, Libby Holcomb, Jessica Lahey, Jessica Milanez, Kelly Nuttall, Tyler Scoggins, Kristen Smith, Stephanie Todd, Jake Young, Albert Romain Bantumbakulu Mukuna, Daniel Miko-Mikyene

College of Arts and Sciences Presentations

This poster provides a preliminary description of the linguistic features of Tshiluba (also known as Luba-Kasai), a major language spoken in the south-central, Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and by several refugee families in the Boise area. Tshiluba is characterized as an Atlantic-Congo, Narrow Bantu, Central language (L31) within the Niger-Congo language family and, although it is spoken by over 6 million people and enjoys national language status in DRC, it has not received extensive recent attention in the linguistic literature. Over the course of a semester, our group has met with native speakers of Tshiluba …

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The Analogical Modeling Of Variation In Russian Inflectional Morphology, Vitalijs Sadovskis, Dr. Royal Skousen Apr 2014

The Analogical Modeling Of Variation In Russian Inflectional Morphology, Vitalijs Sadovskis, Dr. Royal Skousen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The primary purpose of this project was to explain the common and frequently occurring phenomena of variation in Russian morphology. This research is based on empirical data from the Russian language output of native speakers of Russian. The data sets were prepared for and processed by the Analogical Modeling software designed specifically for predicting language behavior. The results of computer analysis were compared with the actual language usage.

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Joseph Smith As A Student Of Languages, Stephen Owen Smoot, Dr. Stephen D. Ricks Apr 2014

Joseph Smith As A Student Of Languages, Stephen Owen Smoot, Dr. Stephen D. Ricks

Journal of Undergraduate Research

During his prophetic career, Joseph Smith spent considerable time and effort towards the study of both modern and ancient languages. Historical evidence indicates that Joseph studied, or at least expressed interest in studying, Hebrew, Greek, Egyptian, Latin, and German. Although his study of these languages was evidently limited, and although he never became proficient in these languages, Joseph Smith nevertheless employed his understanding of these languages in his doctrinal discourses that in many instances led him to formulate creative theological innovations. Although he wasn’t a skilled linguist, and his understanding of some of these languages (particularly Hebrew and Egyptian) was …

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Student Experiences Of The Community College Developmental Writing Classroom, Janet Kirchner Apr 2014

Student Experiences Of The Community College Developmental Writing Classroom, Janet Kirchner

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The low success rate of students in community college developmental education classes has caused not only institutions and their instructors but also those outside of the classroom to search for alternative programs and delivery methods to improve student outcomes. As college completion rates become increasingly tied to state funding, many community colleges are re-thinking their programs, considering acceleration of coursework, learning communities, and supplemental instruction as replacements for the traditional developmental sequence. While these programs have shown success in some community colleges, much of the research is quantitative in nature and based on completion rates. The purpose of this study …

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Senses In Synthesis: Imaginative Sensing In The 19th Century, Jesse Hernandez Apr 2014

Senses In Synthesis: Imaginative Sensing In The 19th Century, Jesse Hernandez

Theses and Dissertations

During the late 19th century, arts and literature had a surge of sensory awareness, made manifest through sensory analogy, intersensory metaphor, and synaesthesia. This dissertation explores this phenomenon through a study of five poets and artists: Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Barlas, and Julia Margaret Cameron. Using imaginative sensing, these artists transformed the relationship between artist and observer, assigning greater responsibility to their audience while simultaneously asserting artistic control of their work. Their fascination with sensory mixing and multisensory awareness demonstrates unique ideas about perception and embodiment, ideas that have sparked both controversy and imitation. I begin …

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Difficult Spaces: The Gothic-Blues Voice In Comparative African American Literary Movements, Cheng-Hsuan Wu Apr 2014

Difficult Spaces: The Gothic-Blues Voice In Comparative African American Literary Movements, Cheng-Hsuan Wu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

In the African American literary heritage, a counter-discourse as opposed to the dominant culture's racial ideology is often needed to not only adopt the "master's text" but also redress it to accommodate the black American's experience and expression. The intention of this dissertation is to theorize the expressive modes of the gothic and the blues as one potent counter-discourse informing the voice of black resistance in African American literature against the exploitation of the master narrative from the mainstream. My project focuses on the potential inter-textuality of the blues/gothic voice in the literary conventions of the migration narrative, black drama, …

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Deafdigest: Blue Edition, April 20, 2014, Barry Strassler Apr 2014

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, April 20, 2014, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2014

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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, April 20, 2014, Barry Strassler Apr 2014

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, April 20, 2014, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2014

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April 20, 2014: Award-Winning Writer Yoko Tawada Reading At Wmu, Department Of English Apr 2014

April 20, 2014: Award-Winning Writer Yoko Tawada Reading At Wmu, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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In Defense Of Women: Exposing The Sexist Portrayals Of Women In Lewis's "Chronicles Of Narnia", D. Niki Brenett Apr 2014

In Defense Of Women: Exposing The Sexist Portrayals Of Women In Lewis's "Chronicles Of Narnia", D. Niki Brenett

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

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The Impact Of The Icty On Atrocity-Related Prosecutions In The Courts Of Bosnia And Herzegovina, Yaël Ronen Apr 2014

The Impact Of The Icty On Atrocity-Related Prosecutions In The Courts Of Bosnia And Herzegovina, Yaël Ronen

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)

The International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia was not mandated to proactively promote domestic prosecutions of war-related crimes. However, its operation may have had some impact on domestic proceedings concerning war-related crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The object of this article is to identify and explain this impact, with respect to qualitative (institutional legal capacities), quantitative (rates of prosecution and trends in sentencing), and normative (the adoption and application of criminal law norms) benchmarks.

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Fearless: Josh Griffiths, Joshua M. Griffiths Apr 2014

Fearless: Josh Griffiths, Joshua M. Griffiths

SURGE

Continually a strong voice for the underrepresented on campus, working with other students and faculty to take initiative in changing campus policy and culture toward the LGBTQ community, and serving as a leader in multiple groups and organizations on campus, Josh Griffiths ’14 fearlessly advocates for members of our campus community, making Gettysburg a more open and welcoming space. [excerpt]

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How Diagnostic Terms May Catalyze Or Extend The Duration Of Anorexia Nervosa, Leslie Pyo Apr 2014

How Diagnostic Terms May Catalyze Or Extend The Duration Of Anorexia Nervosa, Leslie Pyo

UROP Posters

Anorexia nervosa (AN) predominantly affects adolescent females and has the highest rate of mortality among psychiatric disorders. It is categorized as an Axis 1 Clinical Disorder in the DSM-IV and a Mental/Behavioural Disorder in the ICD-9. No research, however, has been conducted on how the diagnostic terms and linguistic categorization of AN may psychologically and neurobiologically contribute to the etiology or duration of AN. Peer-reviewed scientific articles, case studies, and books were used to investigate this relationship. Medical terminology loses its original context when used in non-medical society, gaining the power a label that may catalyze the development of AN …

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Small Group Interactions In Wiki-Based Collaborative Writing In The Eap Context, Mimi Li Apr 2014

Small Group Interactions In Wiki-Based Collaborative Writing In The Eap Context, Mimi Li

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Due to recent developments in Web 2.0 technologies, computer-mediated collaborative writing has captured the growing attention of second language researchers and instructors. The affordance of wikis for collaborative writing has been hailed, but few studies have explored the nature of wiki collaboration and interaction during small group writing using wikis. This dissertation investigated dynamic group interactions in wiki-based collaborative writing tasks in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course at a southeastern public research university in the U.S. A total of twenty-nine English as a Second Language graduate students collaboratively worked on two writing tasks within small groups in Wikispaces …

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Resisting (And Reproducing) Language Domination In A Bilingual Kindergarten Classroom, Roxana Gamble Apr 2014

Resisting (And Reproducing) Language Domination In A Bilingual Kindergarten Classroom, Roxana Gamble

Honors Theses

In modern U.S. society, English is considered the language of power while Spanish is considered a minority language, unfit for academic or professional settings. These macro-level power inequalities are evident in micro-level interactions between students and teachers in mainstream schools. Dual language education programs, however, attempt to challenge this ideology by elevating the status of minority languages and their speakers. In this study, I use an ethnographic/discourse analysis approach to examine how one teacher's practices in a dual language kindergarten classroom work to both reproduce and resist dominant ideologies about Spanish. Through participant-observation, interviews, and audio recordings of naturallyoccurring speech, …

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Poiesthetic Play In Generative Music, John Priestley Apr 2014

Poiesthetic Play In Generative Music, John Priestley

Theses and Dissertations

Generative music creates indeterminate systems from which music can emerge. It provides a particularly instructive field for problems of ontology, semiotics, aesthetics, and ethics addressed in poststructuralist literary theory. I outline how repetition is the ultimate basis of musical intelligibility and of memory in general. The extension of these abstractions beyond tonal music to sound in general is afforded by the concrete iterability of audio recording media. Generative systems delineate a music that is repeatable in principle and in certain qualities, though not in specific forms; a music that produces emergent complexities from novel combinations, retaining the potential to surprise. …

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Markers Of Performance: Emotion Marking And Sacral Bonds In White Supremacist Discourse, Marshall A. Taylor Apr 2014

Markers Of Performance: Emotion Marking And Sacral Bonds In White Supremacist Discourse, Marshall A. Taylor

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Using lyric data from white supremacist musicians, I build upon theories of social marking to develop emotion marking: i.e., the practice of using emotional labels to discursively differentiate social actors. Projections of shame and claims to pride are analyzed here as markers used within white supremacist discourse to differentiate movement loyalists from opposed others in relation to the state of their relative sacral bonds--that is, moral commitments to their perceived sacred social order. Borrowing from social bond theory, it is posited here that when sacral bonds are perceived to be threatened, shame is made manifest; when bonds are maintained, pride …

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April 17, 2014: Newberry Graduate Scholar-In-Residence Opportunity!, Department Of English Apr 2014

April 17, 2014: Newberry Graduate Scholar-In-Residence Opportunity!, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

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The Role Of Teacher Bias In The Disproportionate Representation Of Culturally And Linguistically Diverse Students In Special Education Programs: A Meta-Synthesis, Hilary Rae Apr 2014

The Role Of Teacher Bias In The Disproportionate Representation Of Culturally And Linguistically Diverse Students In Special Education Programs: A Meta-Synthesis, Hilary Rae

MAT in Special Education

This meta-synthesis of the literature on the disproportionate representation of minority students in special education programs examines the extent to which teacher bias impacts that disproportion. The factors that contribute to culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students being overrepresented in special education and underrepresented in gifted education are complex and have deep social and political roots. One such root is that of cultural bias that may be exhibited by teachers working with students whose cultural backgrounds vary from their own. Examining how this bias can impact ways that educators interact with minority students, and how it may affect the assessment …

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Are They Over-Represented? Culturally Diverse Students In Special Education: A Meta-Synthesis, Lillian A. Dewilde Apr 2014

Are They Over-Represented? Culturally Diverse Students In Special Education: A Meta-Synthesis, Lillian A. Dewilde

Special Education Masters Program Theses

This meta-synthesis of the literature on over-prevalence of culturally diverse students represented in special education examines the possible reasons why there are more non-white students receiving special education services then previous years. Specific areas researched include looking at culturally relevant educational practices. Additionally, addressing the identity and self-esteem issues that may occur from being placed in special education. This meta-synthesis meshes the author’s experiences as a special education teacher, parent, and an Alaskan Native woman. The author’s intent is to also explore preventative practices to insure that culturally diverse students are not placed in special education unnecessarily.

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Parent-Teacher Partnership: Diagnosing The Divide: A Meta-Synthesis, Jennifer Martin Apr 2014

Parent-Teacher Partnership: Diagnosing The Divide: A Meta-Synthesis, Jennifer Martin

Special Education Masters Program Theses

Relationships between educators and parents are a requirement of IDEA 2004. Often these interactions have been characterized by misunderstanding, tension, and parents’ contentions that teachers do not have the best interests of their child as a focus. This causes a divide in the parent-school relationship. As times have changed, this divide has as well…it has grown. So what are the reasons that the divide continues to grow? What causes parents to distrust teachers and schools or become un-involved in their child’s education? What causes teachers to distance themselves from parents? What can we do about it? This meta-synthesis delves into …

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Autism: An Evolutionary Etiology: A Meta-Synthesis, Cristina Bruketta Titus Apr 2014

Autism: An Evolutionary Etiology: A Meta-Synthesis, Cristina Bruketta Titus

Special Education Masters Program Theses

This meta-synthesis attempts a detailed look at how Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) evolved from Kanner’s initial identification in 1943 to today’s current understanding. Emphasis will be placed on characteristic change, prevalence increase, causality, and evolution of treatments, techniques, and methods. Equal weight will also be placed on what the best overall treatments, techniques, and methods should be used with an individual with autism.

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Master's Research Project : Transient Migrations And Responses To Effective Change For Mixtec Indigenous Youth, Maura A. Hennessey Apr 2014

Master's Research Project : Transient Migrations And Responses To Effective Change For Mixtec Indigenous Youth, Maura A. Hennessey

Indigenous Studies

This qualitative research was developed not knowing the outcome. The primary goal was to find an indigenous group that resided in the Monterey Bay region of the Central Coast of California. Thanks to the Pajaro Valley Unified School District's Migrant Education Office, this goal was accomplished by the introduction of the Mixtec culture of Oaxaca, in Southern Mexico. The research began by 'hanging out' with the Mixtecs at Adult Education English class building a trust and familiarity. Their primary language is Mixteco,. Lessons were in Spanish to learn English. The project all fell into place after being introduced to Lucia, …

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